Background: As spiritual energy pollution worsens, the great cultivation clans join forces with the government to establish the Spirit Realm Arena to compete for scarce resources. It is a virtual battlefield modified by a higher-dimensional civilization, where talented cultivators are selected each year to fight to the death. Death in the arena means real death.
Protagonist: Lin Qiu, an incomplete cultivator abandoned by his family. His meridians were thrown into chaos by the forbidden cultivation technique Nine Netherworld Netherbody. Forced into the arena, he unexpectedly awakens the [Pain Conversion System]. The more severely he is injured, the stronger he becomes.